re: Dual Boot anyone ?
Sunday, October 2, 2005 at 5:21 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dave C
(1 messages posted)
Interesting, but can you tell me how to get around this one?...
I run XP from a sata raid 0 array, and since i didn't want to wreck, or risk wrecking
that, i created a partition on the primary ide channel, master drive, and made it
as a primary partition... and installed Vista on it, booting off the dvd.
The problem is, that when I instruct my bios to boot from that ide drive, with sata
enabled, it wont do it..
gets some error .. sorry i don't recall exactly what it is now, but i went back to
XP and had a look at the boot.ini, and to my surprise, the boot.ini on the raid array
(XP) is identical, except for the name of the entry, to the boot.ini on the ide drive..
just where they were pointing to i mean... i copied it into XP's boot.ini to be sure...
here it is..
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin
/fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows Longhorn" /NOEXECUTE=OPTIN
/FASTDETECT /USENEWLOADER /DETECTHAL
So, if sata is enabled, and set to boot first, it is seen as multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1),
but set the primary ide to boot first an it is seen as that also...
or so it seems... puzzling indeed. any idea's?
I did get Vista to successfully boot, by leaving the dvd in the drive an having it
set to boot primary, just didn't hit a key... it seems it takes over the boot loader,
as if it were continuing from setup an points it in the right direction, but the
only other way to get it to boot without the dvd that i found, was to disable sata
entirely, and have it boot primary ide first.
Would be nice if i could have them both in the boot.ini / boot loader for XP, on
sata raid tho :\
On Monday, September 26, 2005 at 4:28 am, Wendy Krieger wrote:
>The Vista bootmanager is different to previous versions of NT, and older NT versions
>appear in the legacy menu. Both the legacy menu and the main menu appear in boot.ini.
>
>To move a Windows to the main menu, you need to add the switch /USENEWLOADER,
>and copy the file winload.exe from the vista\system32 to the otherwin\system32 directory.
>
> Windows NT 4.00.1386 sp 6a and Windows NT 5.00.2195 sp4 (2k), boots from only
>the legacy menu. The above trick does not work with these systems.
>
> Windows NT 5.10.2600 SP2 (XP), and i presume Windows NT 5.20.3790 svr boot from
>both the main and legacy menus (without modification), as long as you do the trick
>above.
>
> Windows NT 6.00.5112 beta1 boots from only the main menu. The legacy menu does
>not work for it.
>
>Anything that boots from a bootsector (eg Linux, OS/2, DOS, Windows 9x), will boot
>from either menu.
>
>W
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- re: Dual Boot anyone ? (Wendy Krieger: Monday, September 26, 2005 at 4:28 am)
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